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I do agree that these are not scientific questions, but whether they are a good philosophical question is open to discussion. The ability to ask such ...

That is correct, but I have done quite a bit of reading and thinking on the topic. They do, but unless something turns on the distinction, I join thos...

From the image of a chair one can build a chair but it is not clear what you mean by an ideal chair. We can imagine the eidos or idea or look or kind ...

Fake news is a term that Donald Trump claims he invented, which, of course, is not true but is an excellent example of fake news. There has always bee...

The idea of a messiah predates the identification of Jesus as the Messiah. This was the "messianic age", an age in which it was believed that the mess...

PI 144. ... (Indian mathematicians: “Look at this!”) In Zettel Wittgenstein says: When W. says: “the pupil’s ability to learn may come to an end here”...

The problem with calling them things in themselves is that they are dependent on something else. One might say, however, the same thing about the Form...

Take away the things that they are shadows and images of and the shadows and images disappear. To be clear, I think the idea of things in themselves i...

The education of the philosopher and the education of the gentleman are not the same. The salutary teaching of the gentlemen who will govern the city ...

The basis of ethics is care. Things matter to us. Care about the well-being of others. Care about justice. Care about doing good. In my opinion, the a...

Not according to the argument in the Republic. This is the point of my saying that the prisoners are only mistaken if the things we see are only image...

This is an image. Socrates calls it an image. Images are at play on many levels in the Republic. They would only be mistaken if, using your example, t...

Very generally, Plato created a veil with the appearance of a greater reality that is nothing other than a dreamlike illusory state, an image on the c...

Both quotes raise the point of modernity's relation to its past, its history. It was a deliberate break with the past, which creates problems and issu...

There is no evidence that he is solving the mess he created. Is calling off an attack at the last minute your idea of solving the mess? There is no te...

There is nothing sane about his posturing and threats and calling for a strike and then calling it off at the last minute for still undisclosed reason...

I agree. I do not think that his decision had anything to do with what he said. I was poking holes in his claims not trying to explain his decision in...

Discourse expresses, gives voice to, to have one’s say, to be heard, to find one’s voice. Discourse articulates, distinguishes, brings forth, and gath...

It would not surprise me, but as Trump is fond of saying: we'll see.

If I remember correctly I read about the vote to block the sale in the afternoon, hours before Trump called off the attack. I don't know the timeline ...

Joshs, I am done. If you go back over what I have said I think I have made clear what I think Heidegger means by discourse ... or don't.

I don't know what you mean "in themselves". I am simply saying that what we do and talking about what we do are not the same. The only way in which re...

Trump's elaborated version according to the New York Times: So he would have us believe that up until that point the issue of how many people would be...

I think that is backwards. I think that it is because he is stupid and childish and narcissistic and vindictive that he does what he does. He is compl...

All three scenarios seem plausible. Here is another one, more in line with his schoolboy mentality: show that he is tough by preparing to attack and t...

I am sure there are some who do and some who may not but will still defend Trump's indecisiveness on that basis. I doubt that he was only informed at ...

So why did Trump decide to call off the attack? Could it be because the evidence that Trump said is "documented scientifically" was after all, just wo...

So Trump is set to launch an attack on Iran but ten minutes before the attack he claims he was told that it would kill 150 people so he called it off....

Since the topic has drifted to weapons, the next new thing: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/magazine/hypersonic-missiles.html?em_pos=large&ref=img&...

Are you auditioning for Sarah Huckabee Sanders' job?

Highest? No wonder I always lose.

Here we find Trump's habit of dissembling saying two different things at once: "They made a bad mistake". "They made a very big mistake" "A general or...

This does not explain why you think my statement is incoherent. From Dahlstrom's article: So, tell me where you find in this or elsewhere in the artic...

I don't see how it follows from being within a totality of signification that mowing the lawn is language. But we can go back and forth claiming it is...

We do not have a choice as to whether we are born or not. If someone thinks it is better to not bring children into the world then that is their choic...

I don't understand the question. There are a few basic needs that are required for life. One need not live well, and in many cases one does not to a g...

When life is full and flourishing one is not dead. Would you prefer the opposite? Would you prefer that everyone else live such a life? What hidden ju...

Two points with regard to capacities: First, they are descriptive of the realization of a full human life, of eudemonia or flourishing. Second, to imp...

Good point. It is here we find the call of conscience.

I think that what Heidegger is getting at is that reality is not an ontological category. It is phenomenal not in the sense of as opposed to the noume...

Okay, I am going to end this talk about mowing the lawn, but the lawn will still get mowed, if not by me then by someone else. A totality of relevance...

The argument put forward by Arne, if I understand him correctly, is that this activity must be understood as standing under state of mind, understandi...

My point once again is simply that saying that mowing the lawn is discourse is a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of what I take Heidegger to mea...

I agree that this is a point that he makes but I think there is more to it. We might say, for example, that a hand is one thing but that the palm and ...

So, instead of providing textual support for the claim that discourse is whatever we do you provide excuses for why you cannot provide it. I am willin...

It is not clear whether you are laughing at my claim or at their presumptuousness. In support of my claim: https://www.iep.utm.edu/analytic/#SH5c

State of mind, understanding, and discourse make possible what we do. They are together the a priori conditions for all that we do. I think it evident...

I agree with that, but it does not follow that mowing the lawn is discourse. There may be all kinds of things that come into play with any activity bu...

The meaning of being is not something he or anyone else can tell us. What it is to be is not a matter of definition. It is the question that guides Da...

It may not come in at all. That it does not come into play is not the result of being alone but of performing the activity Heidegger says: The activit...